Brazil: Report that protesters have stolen weapons, ammunition and documents from the Planalto Palace

The damage was huge and very evident in Palazzo Planalto after the assault carried out this Sunday by thousands of followers of Jair Bolsonaro in that place, as well as in Parliament and in the Court. However, as the hours went by, a “very serious” fact worried the authorities: the theft of weapons, ammunition and documents of the Cabinet of Institutional Security (GSI) of the headquarters of the Brazilian Executive.

“There is something that stands out. They had information that weapons were stored here. They brought weapons, documents and ammunition. It is very serious,” said the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Wadih Damous, in a video in which he is seen together with the prime minister of the Social Communications Secretariat of the Brazilian presidency, Paulo Pimenta.

In the images you can see the briefcases where the “lethal and non-lethal weapons” were kept. “Another crime committed by the enemies of democracy!” They agreed in the text of the publication on Twitter.

For his part, the Minister of Social Development, Wellington Dias, assured that the protesters who entered Palazzo Planalto this Sunday the documents were stolen from the Brazilian intelligence agency (ABIN), as well as weapons and computer hard drives.

“God knows why, but there were professionals stealing ABIN documents, arms sector, HD computers… These are scammers, terrorists and crimes of all kinds,” the official said.

Dias also said that “the smallest crime was destroying works of art” from the Brazilian executive headquarters.

The furniture in the buildings was torn apart and thrown out of the windows into the street. After the violent attack, officials found torn canvas paintings, damaged computers, printers and televisions lying on the office floor.

Bolsonaro supporters do not recognize the result of the October 30 election, in which Lula defeated incumbent former president Jair Bolsonaro by a narrow margin of less than two percentage points.

This Sunday, perched on the ramp of the National Congress, the extremists chanted slogans calling for the intervention of the Armed Forces, but the military did not respond to the call and their commanders remained strictly silent.

According to official information, the security forces arrested at least 400 protesters.

Daniel Scioli: “There was like a liberated zone”

The Argentine ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Scioli, cataloged as “dramatic” the theft of weapons which, according to Brazilian government officials, occurred this Sunday during the assault on the Planalto Palace, and it was leaked that there was “a liberated zone”.

“Bolsonaro’s campaign to arm the population requires the utmost attention on this issue. There are many armed people and in this case even more serious because they are more sophisticated weapons that were in Planalto and are in full development of the investigation,” the former governor of Buenos Aires told TN.

Furthermore, he added that, according to his perception, “there was like a liberated zone”. “In the images you can see how they entered Planalto and everything they did. everything was destroyed”, he remarked.

Scioli revealed that the demonstrators “were not able to enter Lula’s office because he had special protection” and, in parallel, ensured that the Brazilian president “is indignant with the governor of Brasilia” because “the buses that entered (towards the capital with protesters) weren’t exactly tourists.

“It is much more serious than what we saw in the Capitol because the three powers of the state were attacked simultaneously,” he concluded.

IS